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Secrets of a Cabinet Miniature

3 July 2018

The conservation and analysis of a miniature painting by Isaac Oliver

Praise for Spike Bucklow's 'Red'

9 February 2018

Spike Bucklow's "Red" was placed on the American Library Association's prestigious 'Choice List' of Outstanding Academic Publications, 2017. A review in the Burlington Magazine (CLIX, 2017, p. 737) said it was ‘written by a research scientist but with the flair of a biographer’

Artists before Columbus: new research on the Caribbean’s largest concentration of indigenous pre-Columbian rock art

30 October 2017

Published by the Journal of Archaeological Science on 30 October, the paper reveals key discoveries such as the first direct rock art dates in the Caribbean, how pre-Columbian rock-art was made and their paint recipes.

A Brush with Royalty

24 May 2017

The Hamilton Kerr Institute has just completed the restoration of two portraits attributed to Nicholas Hilliard

HKI wins 2017 Museum and Heritage Award

18 May 2017

Conservators at the Hamilton Kerr Institute have won the 2017 Museums and Heritage Award for Restoration/Conservation for their Restoration of Sebastiano's Adoration of the Shepherds.

New book on Medieval Screens

28 April 2017

The Art and Science of the Church Screen in Medieval Europe: Making, Meaning, Preserving published

Lucy Wrapson lecture on medieval Suffolk carpenters

17 January 2017

Dr Lucy Wrapson will be presenting a paper at the Cambridge History of Art department at 5.30 on 23rd January on Thomas Gooch and Thomas Loveday, two Suffolk Carpenters and their Rood Screens . For more information see: http://www.hoart.cam.ac.uk/seminars/medievalartseminars

Woodmansterne Art Conservation Awards 2017

2 November 2016

Woodmansterne is now inviting applications for the 2017 Art Conservation Awards. Application deadline: 9 January 2017 Eligibility: all museums, art galleries and country houses in the UK which are open to the public Further information: http://www.woodmansterne.com/about/projects/ Apply now: http://www.woodmansterne.com/...

Missing piece of lost Magritte painting is discovered in Norwich by Hamilton Kerr Conservator

9 September 2016

The missing Enchanted Pose , a painting of 2 identical female nudes by René Magritte, which was exhibited in 1927 and photographed for the accompanying catalogue, has during recent years been discovered in pieces around the world; in Britain, Sweden and the USA. The final 4th missing piece has just recently come to light...

Sebastiano del Piombo’s (1485–1547) Adoration of the Shepherds c.1510

30 June 2016

A 10-year research and restoration project at the Hamilton Kerr Institute on Sebastiano del Piombo’s (1485–1547) Adoration of the Shepherds c.1510, enables the masterpiece to be redisplayed at the Fitzwilliam Museum for the first time in 70 years. The project has come to fruition in the 40th anniversary year of the...

Secrets of a Cabinet Miniature

Praise for Spike Bucklow's 'Red'

Artists before Columbus: new research on the Caribbean’s largest concentration of indigenous pre-Columbian rock art

A Brush with Royalty

HKI wins 2017 Museum and Heritage Award

New book on Medieval Screens

Lucy Wrapson lecture on medieval Suffolk carpenters

Woodmansterne Art Conservation Awards 2017

Missing piece of lost Magritte painting is discovered in Norwich by Hamilton Kerr Conservator

Sebastiano del Piombo’s (1485–1547) Adoration of the Shepherds c.1510

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